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Christopher Prough

Mount Pleasant,IA

Summary

Talented, seasoned managerial professional with a proven record in direct customer collaboration, employee management, and front-end integration. Thirty-three years in conventional and digital printing including twenty-three in direct mail. Responsible for fifty-three employees, spanning four domestic divisions and international resources offshore. Business Operations Executive offering 23-year history of leading strategic and tactical business initiatives. Proven expertise in large-scale business transformation and change management to consistently exceed company objectives. Offering effective communication, team building, and coaching skills with a commitment to fostering company vision and building a professional culture rooted in trust and mutual respect.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Director, Domestic Platform Digital/Graphics

Innovairre Communications
04.2017 - 05.2023
  • Responsible for 53 direct reports encompassing four divisions nationally - and 13 direct reports in an offshore capacity.
  • Reported directly to the COO
  • Worked directly with our four largest customers to educate and implement paths and procedures for their files to flow directly into our systems - including 7,000 plus run-ready PDFs annually. This involved extensive travel
  • Fostered a work culture of collaboration and inclusion to increase morale and reduce turnover
  • Instituted formal operating procedures and enforced adherence to policies and regulations that impacted the bottom line
  • Increased company revenue by streamlining processes and implementing cost-saving measures

Prepress and Data Processing Manager

Alaniz
08.2000 - 03.2017
  • First hired in Tulsa, OK, then relocated to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, to transform and expand our already existing Prepress department. Within months, I was promoted to manager over the press room, which encompassed another 14 employees.
  • By 2008 promoted to include Data Processing programming and Data Sort - thus creating a streamlined flow for a better customer experience.
  • Directly responsible for twenty-four employees, reporting directly to the Senior Vice President.
  • Throughout my twelve years in this role, I worked closely with our highest-revenue customers - traveling to California, Nebraska, Virginia, and Washington multiple times for one-on-one customer interactions. These relationships were then used to bring about customer loyalty which afforded the opportunity to collaborate on systems that brought synergies to both the customer and the company.
  • Partnered with subject matter experts in the continuous improvement process, upgraded data quality, and recommended innovative production strategies

Education

Some College (No Degree) -

University of Biblical Studies And Seminary
Bethany, OK

Skills

  • Management across multiple divisions - both national and international
  • Problem-Solving
  • Staff Management
  • Team Building and Motivation
  • Organizational Development
  • Collaborative Leadership
  • Extensive Digital Content Expertise- Direct Mail
  • Non-profit startup, fundraising, growth

Achievements and Awards

Created a fundraising organization that solicits donations from my 998 friends on Facebook. In the past five years, we have collected $195,000 plus (small donations that come in almost every single day) - these donations have funded the following for Bangladesh:

  • Girls Home (Started with five and now includes 20 pre-teen girls brought in from far rural Bangladesh. Each has lost at least one custodial parent. The money collected educates, clothes, feeds, and provides a safe environment in Mymensingh. $2,500 monthly budget
  • Twenty-five thousand plus pounds of rice were distributed (mostly during multiple lockdowns in 2020-2021). One 25 KG bag at a time. We estimate that we sustained close to six hundred families during those bleak times
  • Seven hundred Christmas Gift Boxes were purchased, filled, and delivered to extreme rural parts of Bangladesh
  • Thirty church buildings were built and lay pastors employed
  • Twelve-hundred plus blankets bought for those in extreme poverty
  • Fostered relationships and then mentored two separate non-affiliated Christians (Mymensingh and Khulna) to distribute, feed, and preach the word of Jesus Christ
  • Personally traveled to Bangladesh in January 2020 to visit seven rural churches. Three years later, I solicited funds to send my 20 and 16-year-old sons to visit twenty-five rural churches and our girl's home
  • Eight hundred ducks / fifteen sewing machines / one specialty handicap bicycle - purchased and given to families to make a permanent change to leave severe poverty and provide for themselves

Board Member - New Hope International

Iowa State Director - Stories Behind The Stars

Century III Leadership Award, 1986 - chosen as one of the top 100 future leaders in America based on 500,000 applications.

Timeline

Director, Domestic Platform Digital/Graphics

Innovairre Communications
04.2017 - 05.2023

Prepress and Data Processing Manager

Alaniz
08.2000 - 03.2017

Some College (No Degree) -

University of Biblical Studies And Seminary

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